September 2026
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From sessions to strategy: Revealing long-term and emerging innovation trends in data analytics, intelligent systems and automation
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) MINEXCHANGE SME Annual Conference & Expo hosts innovation-related content across division sessions…
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Career
Mining education gets federal boost as industry faces workforce crunch
During a mining roundtable at the U.S. Department of State on Aug. 7, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Government…
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Critical minerals management on the federal seabed
The Marine Minerals Administration (MMA), a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Interior, has responsibility over both energy and…
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Critical minerals: Technical and policy considerations
For the last few years, critical minerals have been in the news as policymakers and the media highlight the important…
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Copper stockpiling, transformation capacity and industrial synchronization in the US
The United States is correctly recognizing copper as a strategic material increasingly tied to artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure such as…
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Technical Abstracts
Application of infrared thermography and the acoustic emission technology for loose rock detection
In underground mining and tunneling, the scaling process represents a critical safety procedure to create secure working environments by removing…
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Technical Abstracts
Advancements in rare earth elements leaching and separation process: A review
Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential components of modern technological advancements. With the growing industrial demand for these critical minerals,…
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Technical Abstracts
Rheological characterization of tailing pastes from ore mining
Reliable measurement of the yield stress of iron ore tailings is decisive for two practical problems faced by the mining…
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Enhancing quartz-amine flotation with oily bubbles
Oily bubble flotation is an improved flotation method that uses air bubbles covered with a thin film of oil. This…
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Technical Abstracts
A greedy genetic hybrid heuristic for solving the openpit production scheduling problem
Openpit mine production scheduling (OPPS) is defined as “specifying the sequence of blocks extraction from the mine to give the…
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